CAMDEN - Angelina P. D’Agostino, 92, died Friday, January 2, 2015, at Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport.

Born in Rockland, April 13, 1922, she was the daughter of Vincent and Ruth N. Baker D’Agostino. Educated in local schools, she was a 1939 graduate of Rockland High School. From 1941 to 1944, she studied at Carney Hospital School of Nursing in South Boston, where she earned her degree as a Registered Nurse.

In 1946, Miss D’Agostino entered Marist Missionary Sisters Convent in Bedford, Massachusetts, where she served until 1960. Her service as a Missionary Sister took her to the South Pacific, serving in a Leprosy Hospital at Makogai, Fiji Islands, from 1949 to 1958. She then served 6 months in New Zealand until moving to Sidney, Australia, where she practiced nursing in a tuberculosis hospital until 1960.

She then returned to Camden for a brief time before moving to Ft. Myers, FL. For the next year and a half, she was employed as a R.N. in the Emergency Room at New York Hospital in NYC. In 1962 she returned to Boston, working in emergency medicine at various Boston hospitals. While in Boston, she served three years as Director of ‘Vei Lomani (Fijian word for Love One Another) Half Way House for Women’.
In 1981, Miss D’Agostino returned to Camden, where she cared for her mother until her passing in 1988. She also served as a caregiver to her sister, Virginia L. D’Agostino, in the final months of her life.

She enjoyed gardening and devoted most of her retirement years caring for friends and family. Animals were a great love in her life, and she rehabilitated many pets and volunteered countless hours at Camden / Rockport Animal Shelter.

Other than her parents and sister, Virginia, Miss D’Agostino was pre-deceased by her sister Frances A. Seigneur and a niece Sharon Cochran. She is survived by a niece, Virginia Robinson and her husband Roger Stopper of Sea Side, CA; a nephew, Paul Robinson and his wife Susan of Pennsylvania; several great nieces and nephews; as well as many caring friends who helped her.

Relatives and friends are invited to visit from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M., Wednesday, January 7, 2015, at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock St., Rockland. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 A.M., Thursday, January 8th, at Our Lady of Good Hope Catholic Church, 7 Union Street, Camden. The Reverend Dominic Eshikena, O.P., will officiate. Interment will be in the spring.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center, P.O. Box 707, Rockport, ME 04856.